If someone was to get a lot of practice doing something such as shooting hoops or catching a ball with one eye opened would they be better at it then someone who has gotten little to no practice?

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Variables

Independent Variable:Amount Of Practice

Dependent Variable:Avg. Amount of success (%)

Variables That Need To Be Controlled: Same people doing it, Same amount

of times its done, All the same size ball and all the same eye covered.

Hypothesis

I hypothesize that the people with the most practice will be the best and get a lot more in the people who think about it will be second best and the people who get practice will be last and get the least.

Graph of Hypothesis:

Experimental Design

I will conduct my experiment in the gym. There will be six people involved in my experiment. Their roles are shooting hoops and catching a ball with one eye closed.There will be 10 trials to complete my experiment. I will be recording my data on a spreadsheet. It will be printed off the computer. I will be documenting the shots that go in the hoop and how many tennis balls each person catches with one eye closed. Then I will document how many basketballs don’t go in and how many tennis balls are not caught. I will then see if, overall, more practice makes you better at doing something. I will be taking pictures of the experiment to be added to the WikiPage and display board.

Materials List

1. 6 People
2. Black or dark blue pen
3. Basket Ball
4. Tennis Ball
5. Digital camera
6. Copy of spreadsheet
7. Clip board

Detailed Procedure

Go to the gym with the six people.
Have the two people that practiced shoot ten hoops each
Write down on your spread sheet how many hoops they got in.
Take the two people who thought about ways to get it in the hoop and have the m shoot ten times.
Write down how many times they got it in the hoop.
Take the ten people that didn’t practice at all and have them shoot ten times.
Write down how many times they got it in.
Repeat steps two through seven nine more times.
Take the group of people to gym Again.
Get a tennis ball.
Take the group of people that got practice and have them pass the ball back and forth ten times with one eye closed.
Write down the amount of times they caught the ball on your spread sheet.
Take the group that thought about getting practice and have them pass the ball back and forth 10 times with one eye closed.
Write down how many times they caught the ball.
Take the group who got no practice and have them shoot ten times.
Right down how many times they caught the ball.
Repeat steps eleven through sixteen ten more times .

Background Research

As scientist practiced many sports on Monkeys over a thousand times they have came to the conclusion that practice does not make perfect. They have discovered that the nervous system was not meant to do the same thing over and over again. They have found out that countless hours of shooting hoops or catching a ball doesn't mean that you are going to get the same resaults because the brains behavior is inconsistent it never does the same thing exactly the same way like when you shoot a hoop and you get it in the first time have you ever realized how long it takes you to do that exactly the same?,
This web site also came to the conclusion that practice does not make perfect. Because Your mind does not work on doing the same thing repetitively. So no matter how much pracitce you get you never do it the same.,
This book says that not only does it depend on the person it depends on the throw that they are taking and the way that they are standing that is why it doesn't matter how much practice you get you never stand exactly the same way. Your hands never go on the ball exactly the same way so you never throw it the same way so it can never go in exactly the same way therefore no perfection here.,
This web site says based on the facts i
t has nothing to do with practice its all natural talent. If someones already good at it no amount of practice is going to effect that.

References

"Does practice make perfect." freakonomics. Web. 1 Jan.,
Hareas, John. Ultimate BasketBall. New York , NY: Dk Publishing , 2004. Print.,
Hareas, John. Ultimate BasketBall. New York , NY: Dk Publishing , 2004. Print.
"Practice May Not Make Perfect After All.." New scientist . Web. 21 Dec. 2009. <http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10844-practice-may-not-make-perfect-after-all.html>.,
http://www.science20.com/sports_are_80_percent_mental/does_practice_make_perfect_sports

Results Graph

Web. <http://www.google.com/imgres?q=balled+up+paper&hl=en&safe=active&gbv=2&biw=1024&bih=578&tbm=isch&tbnid=PrjfH4zD1gu6bM:&imgrefurl=http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/06/a_free-fall_follow-up.php&docid=pvY60116gPJArM&imgurl=http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/upload/2009/06/a_free-fall_follow-up/432276_paper_ball.jpg&w=278&h=300&ei=7f1MT9WTMqHo0QHG2sT5Ag&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=84&vpy=232&dur=5&hovh=233&hovw=216&tx=138&ty=131&sig=103274849686957585391&page=1&tbnh=111&tbnw=103&start=0&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0>.

Results

The original purpose of this experiment was to see if practice actually makes perfect or if it was just a myth. The results of this experiment was that yes in some cases practice does make perfect but only if you practice enough. You're not going to be a nba player over night because you spent a few hours practicing the day before. We took all of the data and averaged them out and the answer we got very well supported our information.

Data Table

Graphs

Photos

Data Analysis

Conclusion

My hypothesis was that yes practice would make perfect.

My results do support my hypothesis

There is a relationship between the two variables

Some patterns and trends that my data shows are That the more practice that you get the better you will be at doing it.

I think that the test I did went okay there were a few complications but nothing too bad because we didn't have a basket ball hoop so we had to change everything around so it would still work as a project.

If I could improve my experiment I would make sure that we had everything that we needed for it.

An interesting future study might involve doing more research to see if theres any other ways to prove this right or wrong.

Discussion

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